Our family keeps gathering for holidays and pretending everything is normal even though two of my siblings haven't spoken to each other in over a year after a huge fight about Mom's care. The rest of us are exhausted from managing around it and the grandkids are starting to ask questions we don't know how to answer.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family system is organizing itself around an unspoken conflict, and the effort to maintain normalcy is becoming its own source of suffering.
“Where Are You with Cultural expectations vs. personal values in parenting?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.